The frog galvanoscope was a sensitive electrical instrument used to detect voltage in the late 18th and 19th centuries. It consists of a skinned frog's leg with electrical connections to a nerve. The instrument was invented by Luigi Galvani and improved by…

Robert Oppenheimer did a lot of interesting physics before the Manhattan Project and atomic bombs. More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓

Featuring Tony Padilla from the University of Nottingham: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/antonio.padilla

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Using quasars as ticking cosmic clocks, scientists took a journey back in time, discovering time progressed five times slower just after the Big Bang.

In this post I derive the physics of pumping a swing and the physics of jumping from a swing. Then, using both pieces I compute the optimal strategy of jumping from a swing to maximize the traveled distance. I propose this game as a new Olympic sport.

A new interpretation of Isaac Newton’s writings clarifies what the father of classical mechanics meant in his first law of motion

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 goes to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter". More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓

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@MarkusDeserno: A lovely greeting to y'all! I have a new physics story I'd like to tell——about the relation between Statistical Physics and Quantum Mechanics! Or: why is Quantum Mechanics so in-your-face when it's c...…